republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20132014/sb-1399.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Agricultural seed: county seed enforcement subventions."
description: "Existing law, the California Seed Law, provides for an optional subvention program under which a county may enter into a cooperative agreement with the Secretary of Food and Agriculture to receive an annual apportionment of funds from the secretary for maintaining a statewide compliance level on all seed within the county. Under those provisions, a county with no registered seed labelers may annually receive $100, at the discretion of the secretary and upon recommendation of the Seed Advisory Board, and a county with registered seed labeler operations may annually receive a subvention based on enforcement activity generated by the registered seed labeler operations within the county, and upon the performance of enforcement activities, in accordance with a method for calculating apportionments for participating counties based on units of activity, as specified. Existing law makes those provisions inoperative on July 1, 2016, except as specified, and repeals those provisions on January 1, 2017."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20132014"
identifier: "SB 1399"
citation: "California SB 1399 (20132014)"
classification: ["bill", "appropriation"]
subjects: ["Agricultural seed: county seed enforcement subventions."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Galgiani"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 23
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2014-02-21"
last_action: "2014-08-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5fdcf6d6-1722-4d36-b8f6-bbc668625de4"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB1399"
source_hash: "3a05b6a0c5abad5d9ca603d7b579a8033d9c6b272e9bd99c61748d23ae2dc03c"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---

# California SB 1399 (20132014) — Agricultural seed: county seed enforcement subventions.

Existing law, the California Seed Law, provides for an optional subvention program under which a county may enter into a cooperative agreement with the Secretary of Food and Agriculture to receive an annual apportionment of funds from the secretary for maintaining a statewide compliance level on all seed within the county. Under those provisions, a county with no registered seed labelers may annually receive $100, at the discretion of the secretary and upon recommendation of the Seed Advisory Board, and a county with registered seed labeler operations may annually receive a subvention based on enforcement activity generated by the registered seed labeler operations within the county, and upon the performance of enforcement activities, in accordance with a method for calculating apportionments for participating counties based on units of activity, as specified. Existing law makes those provisions inoperative on July 1, 2016, except as specified, and repeals those provisions on January 1, 2017.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **02/21/14 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB1399&version=20130SB139999INT)
2. **03/26/14 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB1399&version=20130SB139998AMD)
3. **08/25/14 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB1399&version=20130SB139996CHP)
4. **SB1399** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB1399)
5. **08/13/14 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB1399&version=20130SB139997ENR)

## Votes

- SB 1399 Galgiani Senate Third Reading By EGGMAN — **79–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations Recommend Consent. — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- Consent Calendar 2nd — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **7–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Galgiani — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2014-02-21** Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction`
- **2014-02-22** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 24.
- **2014-02-24** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2014-03-17** Referred to Com. on AGRI. `referral-committee`
- **2014-03-21** Set for hearing April 1.
- **2014-03-26** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on AGRI. `committee-passage, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2014-04-01** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 3018.) (April 1). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2014-04-11** Set for hearing April 28.
- **2014-04-28** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. `committee-passage`
- **2014-04-29** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-05-01** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 35. Noes 0. Page 3329.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2014-05-01** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2014-05-15** Referred to Com. on AGRI. `referral-committee`
- **2014-06-19** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 18). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2014-07-02** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (July 2). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2014-07-03** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-08-07** From consent calendar.
- **2014-08-07** Ordered to third reading.
- **2014-08-11** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 5971.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2014-08-11** In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
- **2014-08-15** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
- **2014-08-25** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2014-08-25** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 277, Statutes of 2014.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5fdcf6d6-1722-4d36-b8f6-bbc668625de4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).